[The young man is certainly dramatic. Poison? By whose judgment? Everyone who were allowed to surface after accepting the Kenoma were fine. More than that, even; they've regained clarity of mind and powers they originally had, an access that was lost to them upon immediately awakening in these lands. The thought to challenge his claim is quickly discarded; another roundabout argument, her gut feeling says.]

If you're not getting answers, then perhaps you're simply not asking the right questions. [Xishen hadn't tried avoiding them, had been perhaps a bit distant but otherwise perfectly cordial and helpful when Ciel spoke to her. She no doubt treated the Kenoma and Pleroma differently too, but so did the "poison goo", didn't it? A rhetoric for a rhetoric, then.]

I have already been hearing about this continent, Horos, and its major cities. [The Hylician soldiers took some warming up to, but they did tell her the basics after a while.] Our next destination had long been decided while waiting after you. If that's the best you can come up with, then there's nothing more to talk about.